Provides nutritional support for hooves for horses in light to heavy training, or horses who need added hoof support

Active Ingredient: Restaurex®


What makes HoofMax superior to other hoof-care products?
HoofMax and its proprietary formula, Ungula Fortis, is the only hoof-care product that addresses all aspects of hoof distress.

HoofMax is the only supplement for equine dermal tissues:

• That has been proven effective based on scientific research and field trials
• That contains Restaurex, the proprietary formula in LaminaSaver, the nutritional supplement specifically designed to maintain healthy laminae and support horses facing laminitis and founder/dermitis

After winning awards worldwide for LaminaSaver, Dr. Rossana Figuerola began work on HoofMax, followed by extensive field testing that proved HoofMax to be an extraordinary nutritional supplement for effectively addressing equine hoof problems.

After Figuerola Laboratories released LaminaSaver, other equine-product companies tried to imitate LaminaSaver’s effectiveness, but none of their products contained LaminaSaver’s exclusive active ingredient, 100% pure Restaurex. Now, with the appearance of HoofMax, several manufacturers of equine products are attempting to mimic HoofMax’s formula and its proprietary ingredients. Be sure that you protect your horse’s health, save previous recuperation time, and save money by selecting genuine HoofMax and avoiding “similar” products that claim to be as effective.

How does HoofMax’s special formula protect your horse’s hooves?
HoofMax contains 100% pure pharmaceutical-grade ingredients formulated to help your horse grow and maintain healthy hooves that are strong, hydrated, and pliable, including a variety of important nutrients, minerals, and natural compounds that together help build and maintain healthy hooves, skin, and hair.

HoofMax contains:

• Restaurex, a key ingredient in LaminaSaver, to promote healthy, new cell regeneration to repair damaged cells
• High levels of biotin to create a healthy horn
• Amino acids like methionine and lysine, key components of keratin, which composes the hoof structure
• Amino-MAX, an amino acid complex that delivers missing or depleted amino acids essential for building necessary proteins
• Vitamins and minerals that help deliver keratin and biotin to the immune system and promote strong structural growth of the hoof

What causes hoof distress?
Many horse owners are not fully acquainted with some of the essentials of hoof care. Even some veterinarians, equine practitioners, farriers, and other trained professionals may not be completely aware of the many causes of hoof distress.

Hoof distress is caused by multiple pathological factors, but the most serious factor is the horse's inability to build strong, hydrated, and pliable hooves.

Other important factors include the horse’s inability to:

• Maintain the structural integrity of the hoof
• Speed wound healing
• Grow and heal hoof tissue
• Increase blood volume in areas where blood vessels are constricted
• Protect hooves against heavy metal poisoning

Why is HoofMax the preferred treatment for hoof distress?
Dr. Figuerola has discovered that relieving hoof distress requires addressing all of the factors that cause hoof degeneration. At Figuerola Laboratories, Dr. Figuerola has developed HoofMax as a balanced hoof-care supplement designed to support the health of all dermal tissues and to target the many complex factors associated with hoof distress.

The HoofMax formula was developed as a result of years of nutritional research with horses, in which test subjects were found to be deficient in one or more of the nutrients included in HoofMax.

HoofMax contains 13 guaranteed nutrients necessary for growing and maintaining healthy dermal tissues, rather than only one or two ingredients, such as biotin or methionine, in products that are currently being marketed individually by other hoof-care providers.

Why is HoofMax the right hoof supplement for your horse?
HoofMax with Ungula Fortis was especially designed by Dr. Figuerola in response to several basic facts of equine nutrition.

• Hooves are derivatives of the skin, so both hooves and skin require the same nutritional support. Nutrients that improve the horse's coat also improve the horse's hooves, and vice versa.
• A horse requires a range of many nutrients to maintain healthy skin and hooves—simply adding biotin, for example, or methionine to the horse’s diet cannot ensure healthy hooves or skin.
• All of the horse’s metabolic processes are entwined and affect one other. Providing a horse with effective nutrition requires understanding that the horse has a single, integrated metabolism.
• The health of a horse’s hooves depends on the proper balance of all nutrients, not on the amount of any single nutrient.

A few important facts about hoof structure, nutrition, and HoofMax:

• The design and construction of the equine hoof is an engineering wonder, but for the hoof’s natural design to be fully executed, the horse's diet must include the correct nutrients.
• The HoofMax formula provides the balanced nutrient support that horses need to build strong connective-tissue proteins.
• Connective-tissue proteins comprise 50% of the body’s proteins and form the microscopic framework of the horse’s body, providing form and strength to all major organs and tissues.
• Connective tissue proteins combine to form fibers that may cross link with neighboring fibers. The strength of these joined fibers depends on the number of cross links.
• The hoof is a highly cross-linked connective tissue that depends on its many cross links for strength and resiliency.
• Cross links are chemically "expensive" for the body to produce. If the horse’s diet lacks nutrients that contain the necessary chemicals, fewer crosslinks will be formed and the new or repaired tissue will be weaker.
• A strong healthy hoof can only be built through proper nutrition. The HoofMax formula provides the chemical "currency" to produce crosslinks that allow the horse to grow strong hooves.
• Within a few weeks, HoofMax will help produce an emerging new band of hoof growth, as well as a glossy, more deeply colored coat. Internal benefits are harder to see, but just as dramatic.

How do the specific ingredients in HoofMax build strong connective tissue for healthy hooves?
HoofMax is a unique nutritional support for protecting and improving the integrity of your horse’s hooves. As well as maintaining the strength, proper moisture, and pliability of the hoof structure, HoofMax also promotes healthy skin and a vibrant, shiny coat.

HoofMax with Ungula Fortis provides your horse with:

• Restaurex, the active ingredient in LaminaSaver, to enhance the body’s ability to regenerate healthy cells
• All the nutrients important to the synthesis of RNA, DNA, and protein
• High levels of 100% pure biotin. (Although biotin alone usually cannot correct poor horn quality, dietary supplementation of biotin is essential for horses under stress from intense work, traveling, long periods of stabling, or a low-quality diet. Horses that respond to biotin supplementation alone—approximately 5% of those with poor-quality horn—exhibit large holes in the outer layer of the hoof wall when the wall is viewed by microscope. Inner layers of the wall are seldom affected.)
• Extremely high levels of Amino-MAX (amino acid complex) for keratin synthesis and collagen formation, as well as extra essential amino acids like lysine, methionine, and DL-methionine, the major building bocks of connective tissue and the key components of the protein keratin. These essential amino acids associated with keratin production are necessary for biotin to function effectively and are often deficient in equine diets.
• Naturally occurring tyrosine and phenylalanine, important amino acids needed for proper protein formation that are often lacking in equine diets
• Essential key vitamins, including vitamins A, C, and E, to reinforce keratin production. Vitamin C along with copper serves as a catalyst in the formation of strong and healthy horn
• Mineral ingredients of keratin tissue in conjunction with bioavailable chelated trace minerals such as copper, manganese cobalt, silicon, calcium, magnesium, and zinc—necessary elements for the development and maintenance of healthy hooves and the formation of certain key enzymes, including alkaline phosphatase
• Copper, a component of the enzyme lysyl oxidase, an important co-factor in the cross-linking of proteins
• Manganese and silicon, crucial for healthy connective tissue
• Zinc, essential for the prevention of defective keratin, which causes soft and brittle hooves
• Stabilized rice bran, soy protein concentrate, OMEGAMAX (Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids), and SWEETMAX, to promote healthy skin, hair, and coat, and proper moisture maintenance and pliability of the hoof structure

Powder Supplement.


Administration
Administer ½ scoop per 500 lbs body weight. Mix with food.


Ingredients
Biotin 2000 mg, DL-Methionine 3500 mg, Methionine 3500 mg, Lysine 3000 mg, AMINOMAX (Alanine 8.50%, Glycine 22.80%, Methionine 0.78%, Arginine 7.90%, Histidine 0.77%, Phenylalanine 2.00%, Aspartic acid 5.70%, Hydroxyproline 13.00%, Proline 13.80%, Asparagine 5.20%, Hydroxylysine 0.70%, Serine 3.30%, Cysteine 0.08%, Isoleucine 1.30%, Threonine 1.90%, Glutamic Acid 9.50%, Leucine 2.90%, Tyrosine 0.40%, Glutamine 5.40%, Lysine 4.20%, Valine 2.40%) 1000 mg, Silicon 1000 mg, Zinc 500 mg, Copper 150 mg, Cobalt 30 mg, Manganese 300 mg, Calcium 1000 mg, Vitamin A 1500 IU, Vitamin C 1000 mg, Vitamin E 1000 IU, OMEGA-MAX (Omega-3 and Omega-6) 3000 mg and RESTAUREX (A Proprietary Antioxidant Formula) 100 mg.

**These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.